Charles Fischer

And this is building a culture...

Geez I love this...puts all the pressure on himself over performance, not talk. Whew! (Coach Wilson Love is in this video, but he is repeating what Coach Lanning has said) Did Lanning kill-it with this staff or what?

THAT is a great example, as we may have a real gem in this player.

Duck Fan 76....that is a pretty darned impressive first post. Please share your thoughts often and WELCOME!

You can only have 85 on scholarship per year. So if you lose a ton to the portal...you can sign up to 32 to replace them up the to the 85 total.

We will be fine for three years....and Oregon will get theirs in this environment. So far....we came out ahead in the portal game between what was lost and what was gained. Our high school recruiting is going well, so let's live it up while we can! We'll still get our shots...

David...I LOVE IT when you refer to a FishDuck article as a reference source. Especially when it is yours!

I love the feedback here, and it has crystallized my thinking a bit more. I am favoring the Portal route for a starter, and loading the bench with 3-Star QBs with upside. Find out among them who can play, and perhaps become "The Man" sometime down the road? That way we pay NIL for a proven, experienced QB, and are still developing newbies? Although this transfer, Dakota Prukop was not a sure thing...

Today is when you can order extra tickets for season ticket holders, and I'm waiting on hold with some specific questions. The wait music is the typical elevator music, although it is a lovely muted French Horn or Trumpet with an orchestral accompaniment. It was not objectionable, in fact it was nice--even when played over every five minutes or so. Then...twice out of the blue the French Horn/Trumpet goes into part of the Oregon Fight Song! So this must have been recorded over the UO Music Department...cool! I laughed out loud and hummed along... We Love Our Ducks!

Tell that to the coaches!

That is true until our average QB decides to play "hero-ball" before halftime. Or you have an average quarterback that you are trying to win with, and you get beat by a great QB at another school. All of this will be forgotten as we fume at the coach... (Again, this is hard stuff IMHO!)

I am OK with this since they are below the 85 total, but boy there will be some very young teams when you take 32 in a year!

I am in agreement with that, but if you were a great QB who only has this one chance, and Oregon offers 500K over three years, and another school offers 2 million over the same time period....don't you have to go with the best chance to help assure your future? I would not blame a QB for doing that... My FishDuck Friends, I am really not trying to be argumentative, but simply demonstrate how complicated this subject is. And of course we will blame the coach if it does not all go as we want...

I would agree that this is the most preferred tactic, but it relies on a blockbuster year on offense, no injuries, etc. Once the "Oregon Brand" is re-established, then it will not be as much as a problem, but for this year--it is. (IMHO)

That is hazardous to me, as this fall would have a completely different feel if we were depending upon an unproven, inexperienced Thompson versus Nix.

I think that is an easy thing for all of us to say until we have a Jeff Lockie running the offense again... Remember the Alamo?

I would agree; get an experienced QB in the portal, but the problem there is that it destroys the QB room and the recruiting of high school quarterbacks. I mean, who would want to come to Oregon if you know the Ducks will go get a portal QB every year or two? No easy solutions...

A uniform comment here is, “we have to see how it plays out,” and that is obvious. But this is an issue that Oregon is dealing with at this very moment, as a five star quarterback is announcing his intentions in the next two weeks. It is certainly affecting the viability of the Ducks remaining in contention for quarterbacks in the 2023 recruiting class. What strategy should Oregon implement in your view?

A good list, and perhaps next year’s class may add to it eventually?

This team was not as mentally strong as I hoped either, and it showed up in hitting and pitching at inopportune times. Only 64 teams out of 299 D-1 schools get to go to the NCAA Baseball Tournament. The first year for Waz was stopped due to COVID, and both years since--he has taken us to where nearly 80% of college baseball teams don't get to go in both non-COVID years. Now for the next step up... I Love my Ducks!

So...Oregon State could have a big impact in the upcoming conference decisions? Canzano: Pac-12 CEO Group about to get a new voting member WWW.JOHNCANZANO.COM Plus... a special sports event coming soon.

An article about this topic on Monday!

Kinda feels like "Snooker" to me...

Some interesting stuff in here.... Canzano: Mailbag takes on Phil Knight, Damian Lillard and the Pac-12 WWW.JOHNCANZANO.COM Your questions... my answers...

(From Official Press Release) (Not included in the press release is how Oregon set the Pac-12 record with 26 hits in an NCAA Playoff game.) Louisville, Ky. — Oregon used a school-record 26 hits to score 18 runs and stay alive in the Louisville Regional on Saturday in an 18-6 win over Southeast Missouri State at Patterson Field. Every Duck starter collected at least one hit with seven recording multiple hits led by Brennan Milone’s career-high five and Josiah Cromwick’s career-best four. Malone went 5-for-6 at the plate on the heels of Friday’s three-hit game. He is 8-for-11 with two home runs, two doubles, four RBI and four runs scored in the first two games of the regional tournament. How It Happened: Milone continued to swing a hot bat in the first inning for the Ducks. Coming off a 3-for-5 regional game one where he hit a home run and doubled twice, Milone lined a two-out pitch over the left-field wall giving Oregon an early 1-0 lead. Oregon (36-24) pushed the lead to eight runs with a huge seven-run second inning. After a leadoff out, Oregon had nine straight batters reach base. Anthony Hall started the rally with a double off the wall in left-center field. He moved to third on a Cromwick infield hit and then scored along with Cromwick on a Sam Novitske double. Novitske made it 4-0 on a Gavin Grant RBI single. After a Tanner Smith walk, Colby Shade ripped a three-run homer over the left-field wall. After Shade cleared the bases with the homer, Milone started another rally with a single, his fifth hit of the regional tournament. Drew Cowley moved Milone to second with a single off the pitcher and a Josh Kasevich hit-by-pitch loaded the bases. Hall snapped Oregon’s string of reaching base at nine, but not without driving in the seventh run of the inning. The Ducks’ right fielder flew out to center field scoring Milone for an 8-0 lead. SEMO (37-22) cut the lead to six with single runs in the second and the third, before Oregon put three more on the road thanks mostly to back-to-back-to-back doubles. Cowley started the double parade before scoring on a Kasevich double who then came around to score on a Hall double. After a Cromwick single, Novitske picked up his third RBI of the day scoring Hall on a sacrifice fly and an 11-2 lead. The Redhawks answered with three in the bottom of the fourth to pull back within six, but Oregon put four more on the board in the top of the sixth to regain command. Cromwick doubled to lead off the inning and scored on Sam Novitske’s fourth RBI of the day coming on a single up the middle. Novitske swiped second, moved to third on a Grant sacrifice bunt and scored on a Smith RBI single. Colby Shade reached on an error on SEMO third baseman Peyton Leeper allowing Smith to move to second before he came around to score on a Milone RBI single, his fourth hit of the day. Cowley picked up his third hit of the day, driving in Shade from second to cap the four-run inning and push Oregon’s lead back to 10. The Ducks tacked on three insurance runs in the top of the eighth. Milone picked up his career-best fifth hit of the day to spark the rally, moved to third on Cowley’s fourth hit of the day and second double before both scored on Kasevich’s first triple of the season. Hall singled to drive in Kasevich to give Oregon an 18-5 lead. Box Score Notes: Oregon ran its team RBI total to 411, the first time in school history the Ducks have had more than 400 RBI in a season. The Ducks also ran their total to 1030 total bases this season, the first time Oregon has surpassed the 1,000 total base mark in a season. Oregon matched a season-high with seven doubles for the second straight day and ran its season total to 120 doubles which ties the school record. Smith set a new Oregon single-season record for hits on his single to center to lead off the game … He finished with his 26th multi-hit game of the season and the 65th of his career, one shy of tying Gabe Matthews (2017-21) for the school record. Milone’s home run was his 12th of the season, moving him into a tie for sixth on the single-season home run list with Tom Dodd (1978) and Dave Roberts. (1978) Hall’s second inning double gave him 15 two-baggers for the season, tying him with Milone and Brett Thomas (2013) for ninth on the Oregon single-season list … He added his 16th in fifth tying him with Tyler Baumgartner (2014) and Danny Pulfer (2011) at the time for seventh. Shade’s home run was his fifth of the season and first since April 15 at Washington. Novitske registered his 10th multi-hit game of the season and the 42nd of his career. He also had his seventh multi-RBI game of the season and the 17th of the season. Cowley put together his 20th multiple-hit game of the season in just 37 starts … He also had his 16th double of the season moving him into a tie with Hall, Baumgartner and Pulfer for seventh … Cromwick finished with his seventh multi-hit game of the season and the ninth of his career … All nine Ducks scored at least one run with eight of them scoring multiple runs … Five Ducks drove in multiple runs led by Novitske’s career-high tying four. On Deck: Oregon will meet the loser of Saturday’s late game between Michigan and Louisville at 9 a.m. (PT) on Sunday.